Plant genotype, microbial recruitment and nutritional security
Agricultural food products with high nutritive value are always preferred over food products with low nutritive value. Efforts are being made to increase the nutritive value of food by incorporating dietary supplements to the food products.
Jai Singh Patel +3 more
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Bale Location Effects on Nutritive Value and Fermentation Characteristics of Annual Ryegrass Bale Stored in In-line Wrapping Silage [PDF]
In southeastern regions of the US, herbage systems are primarily based on grazing or hay feeding with low nutritive value warm-season perennial grasses.
K. J. Han +3 more
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Strategies for improving the nutritional quality of Phaseolus beans through gene engineering [PDF]
Although Phaseolus species are still difficult to transform, progress in this field now opens the way to engineering beans with a higher nutritional value.
Kapila J. +6 more
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The Nutritive and Feeding Value of Olive Cake for Ruminants
The factor affecting nutritive and feeding value of olive cake (OC) was evaluated and, some suggestion was made regarding using olive cake in ruminant nutrition.
Gürhan Keleş
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Improvement of protein and amino acid contents in seeds of food legumes. A case study in Phaseolus [PDF]
Food legumes are considered as the major source of dietary proteins among the plant species. Protein and amino acid contents were evaluated in a wide sample of both wild and cultivated genotypes of Phaseolus species, with a view to investigate ...
Baudoin J.P., Maquet A.
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Maturation process of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) could be prevented by the reduction of lignin content in terms of conventional breeding or transgenic technology.
Xuan Xu, Doohong Min, Iryna McDonald
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Nutritional potential of bamboo leaves for feeding dairy cattle [PDF]
Feed shortage during the dry season in the highlands of Madagascar negatively impacts the dairy cattle productivity, as well as the farmers' income. Bamboo can produce a high quantity of biomass and could be an alternative way to increase the fodder ...
Andriarimalala, José Herilalao +4 more
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Lucerne is a low input energy efficient crop that improves soil fertility, and its importance is rising with the increase of public interest in sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, it occupies a significant economic position in the animal feed market (i.
M. Odoardi +5 more
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Central rib and the nutritive value of leaves in forage grasses
In grasses, leaf expansion and central rib growth occur in a non-proportional manner, with potential implications to the nutritive value of leaves. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship among blade length, percentage of central rib,
Larissa Fernanda Garcia +5 more
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A note on the chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of contrasting stover components of maize grown in climatically marginal conditions and harvested at differing maturities. [PDF]
peer-reviewedThis study evaluated the nutritive value of three contrasting components of maize stover (leaf, upper stem, lower stem) at three harvest dates.
Doyle, Evelyn M. +2 more
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